Guessin With The Pig · Blues Solo

26 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 0:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
26
LENGTH
0:52
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8-9 and 12, and 3 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GUESSIN WITH THE PIG · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 2 and 14.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

26 bars: 20 keep time, 3 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-12.

OUTRO
1 grooveDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Guessin With The Pig?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Guessin With The Pig hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

26 bars, about 0:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Guessin With The Pig?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 2 and 14.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 26 BARS ANALYSED
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